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19.5.18

Ross Hart MP reply to open letter to Bill Shorten

10 May 2018

Mike GriffinBellingen and Nambucca District RAR

By email
M&M.Griffin2@bigpond.com Dear Mr Griffin

RE OFF SHORE
PROCESSING POLICY

Thank you very much
for your letter of 18 April 2018 sent to my Parliament House office.

I commend you for the
steps that you are taking to advocate for change. I do not accept, neither does
the Labor Party accept that indefinite detention is necessary or appropriate.
Those presently on Nauru and Manus Island must be resettled to third countries
and their detention should not be used as a deterrent against people smuggling.

I do believe that it
is necessary for a newly elected Labor government to focus upon resettlement of
those presently in detention but also to increase funding to the UNHCR and also
increase the number of refugees that will be accepted through the refugee
stream.

It is or should be to
the eternal shame of the Australian public that refugees and asylum seekers
have been used as political tools. The government will, nevertheless, continue
its policy of demonising refugees and asylum seekers, despite the fact that
conflict, wars and famine continue to create significant streams of refugees internationally.

Thank you once again
for writing to me. I have made my views publicly known even before my election
to federal parliament. Please maintain your efforts in changing public attitude
to indefinite detention.